can somebody explain to me as detailed as possible,about how to edit your Registry.I know you can really mess things up if you don't do things properly,it would be greatly appreciated.I am in need to access it to stop messenger from starting at boot/running in the backround.I went within windows messenger it self and unchecked the boxes(run windows messenger when Windows starts and allow messenger to run in backround)BUT IT STILL RUNS IN THE BACKROUND?I also have other things I need to deal with by editing my Registry.Just unsure exactly HOW TO BACK THE REGISTRY AND EDIT IT??I keep NOTICING (msmsgs.exe)listed in my running processes when I pull up task manager.
I have a 3 year old Dell 4700 with XP Pro. I want to reload XP using the XP instalation disk I have. Anyone give me a step by step? I have all the files I want to keep on an external hard draive.
I would point out two things about a re-installation: Contrary to many concerns, a Reinstall DOES NOT change your computer except for replacing files with the original Windows installation files--your desktop and menus and Documents and Settings all stay the same. This may or may not have an effect on some installed programs--I have reinstalled many many times and it seems with XP, I've never had any problem
2. Reinstall is often an easy way to fix a nagging problem that there seems to be no solution to--you can do it easily in about a half hour with a minimum of effort as long as you have your original CD and product code AND you have bootable CD drive which most are--you can test it easily by changing the boot order to the CD and inserting your Windows CD to see if it starts booting.
After almost 4 hours (3 hours of desperate trial and error, 45 minutes of chkdsk) I got my computer to reboot after a mup.sys hang. After using my laptop to research it, I learned that the hang could be caused by a lot of things. So now that I've got it going again, what's my next step?One of the last things I did was take out the new USB 2.0 PCI card, thinking that could be it even though I had been using it for 3 days with no problems during reboots or otherwise.The system crashed sometime last night, possibly while Ghost was trying to do a backup. I backup to a USB 2.0 external drive, again pointing to a possible conflict with the card. (I should note that I just realized Ghost hasn't actually done a backup in two weeks because it thinks the disk is full. Would have been nice it if had notified me of that when it happened.)
1.] ZD/Net and C/Net should warn readers not to use the free download s/w that claims to block ads on Kazaa. Kazaa has a system that cancels your Kazaa s/w, and has a fix to reinstall the s/w. After 3 days I'm still trying to download the s/w but it keeps hanging up in step 5. of the download process, and its driving me nuts! So beware! 2.] C/Net should make it easier to find this site.
Been working on a friends Gateway P4 'puter after he had a disaster with a virus. Formatted the drive and installed the OS then proceeded to install all his apps and utilities. Left him about a week ago to research what kind of drive for him to purchase to install as Primary slave intending to use it for Acronis backups and other stuff. He called me and said he could not get XP to boot. Well, today I went to his place and turned the system on. Got through the normal startup screen and then the log on screen came up telling me to click on the user name... THERE WAS NO USER NAME SHOWN. My experience with XP is limited but I did try F8 and went through attempts to recover with no joy. Finally decided to just reinstall the OS. Now I gotta go through all the tweaks to get it up and running. Is there a way to get around the user name access without the drastic step of reinstalling the OS? What the heck could have caused this?
My WinXP Pro SP2 P4 desktop takes a very long time to boot. The time seems to be spent in a routine MBA (Managed Boot Agent) V4.30, which is provided by LAN Works Technology Co. of 3M Corp. The process identified is a boot execution executive named PXE V2.20. Since there is no LAN present on which a boot file is located, the process completes with "No boot file found." The booting process proceeds with the OS file located on the C drive. Is there a way to safely eliminate the MBA step?
when i try to run a checkdisk on my c: drive xp schedules a scan for the next restart. when i restart the scanning stops at 0% in step 4/5. the computer is stuck from then on and i need to power off and restart, and then skip the scan (which the computer tries to do again).now when i boot normally, afgter the xp splash screen, the screen goes blank for a long time (maybe up to 10-15 minutes sometimes) before xp loads and i can use the computer.
After a new install I have 2 traits different from the way they have been for about 5 years and I would like to change them to what I am familar with.But afer googling,I am still lost , This one I think need a new registry value added and I never did that I have changed values but never added a whole new value. So if you can help me take it slow.I would like to remove the my recent documents on the start menu using the classic style.I have found several D value names to add and I would like the correct one.
I followed instructions to edit the registry for a program (Foxit PDF Reader), changing 0's to 1's to disable a certain feature, then exiting from regedit. When I reopened it, the changes hadn't stuck. Is this a peculiarity of the program i.e., it has some way of preventing changes to its features or have I failed in some way to save registry edits before exiting?
I have kaspersky anti virus installed on a windows 2000 server, it used to update from the administration kit. However problem with that server, means that the admin kit is no longer running.I cannot update kaspersky manually as it says it is controlled by administrator, and there is no update section of the settings, for me to change where the server looks for its updates.Think it maybe something that can be changed in the registry editor, however when i attempt to change the value, i get a 'Error writing the values new contents'The correct permissions have been set, but still not working.
I have a Windows XP Pro, SP2 customer. We are attempting to modify the registry key for the "Everyoneincludesanonymous" from a value of 0 to 1. When he selects "OK" he gets a message that says he cannot change this value. In fact he cant change any registry data and he is the admin.
I logged on to my system today and all of sudden.I am no longer the administrator of my computer...the RUN command has dissappeared, I can't edit the registry, and I can't access the task manager.I've come across some other solutions to fix my the registry and task manager but I can't fix those until I can access the 'RUN command' to execute these other methods.
I recently uninstalled Windows SP3 RC1 from my computer and reverted back to Windows SP2 through the use of Projekt (Project) Dakota. Before uninstallation though, one of my siblings had run this script to update to Windows SP3 RC2. I do not want to install the newest RC2, as I'm now waiting for a final release. I changed my Windows Update Settings to download but to not install, as it was already downloaded from yesterday. Is there anyway to remove the already downloaded but not installed update for Windows SP3 RC2, and is there anyway to remove the script (that tells the computer to download SP3 RC2?)
I have a tutorial in a CHM file format. I want to add some notes and highlight some stuff in the tutorial. Is it possible to edit a CHM file and if yes
I had win xp installed on my C:, then installed win2k on my G:. I reformatted my C:, and when I restarted my computer, it could not boot into win2k.. it gave me an "insert system disk" error
Anyone knows how to edit or modify Welcome screen in Windows XP? I'm planning to add few words to the Welcome (opening). I tried to use logon loader but didn't work.
I am trying to completely lock down anything from running on a specific user account, except for 1 program which auto runs on boot.. I'v been able to lock the system down pretty well with the group policy editor.. but is there anything similiar to this that will edit specific user settings only? Or make my admin account not affected by the group policy editor?
I have a problem when using AD, when I go to edit the default group policy it pops up a box telling me.... " the following entry in the [strings] section is too long and has been truncated
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There is then a load of texted underneath that relates to the specific string. When you hit the OK button another one appeares and they just keep coming
I'm running WinXP Pro, SP2, in a two-month-old laptop. Until this week, I could add new file types in the Tools, Folder Options/File Types tab. Now I can't, and I don't know why. I can see the file-types list, but the New, Delete, Change, Advanced buttons are greyed out
I have a problem with these context menus after some applications, like Winamp, created chaos in the menu for file folder and folder. I cannot double-click on folders anymore because the default task has been changed as well. For some reason I cannot access to edit most entries in the menu. I would like to change the menu default back to double-click and eliminate several items in the menu.
When ever I open up one of the menus in any program (file, edit, tools, windows etc.) it doesn't show me anything unless I run my cursor down over them all. This all so happens with all the sub menus
I have finally managed to install XP after nuking the original Vista, which I reinstalled on a second partition.I am now booting Vista as default and selecting XP from the Vista boot menu.I want XP to be the default OS but Vista doesn't appear in the XP boot menu so I need to edit it to include Vista.Below is my current XP boot.ini file, with XP on C: and Vista on D:Quote:;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options
I recorded a move off of television onto a dvd, and now I want to edit out the commercials and burn a new copy for myself. What is some good software to do this with? I have Adobe Premiere 6.0, but I cannot seem to get that to work with this dvd. I was able to decrypt it to my hard drive. I am very familiar with DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink, but they are not for this type of editing,apparently.With DVD Shrink,all I can do is cut the beginning and the end credits etc. Is there something like DVD Shrink, but better, that lets you cut out the commercials and then encode it and burn it?
I want to remove a few right click functions that have added them selfs to my menu. I have managed to remove all but a few.These only occur when i right click a folder (i got rid of the ones for files).
